The dude who broke his previous oldest thru hike record is part of his support team. Legends of the trail in the making. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/w...

the crack of the bat. the scent of a verdant field. A nationally broadcast game. These are the things that piss baseball fans off the most

Recently learned there are about three more Terminator movies than I thought there were.

no one wants to consider my insane pitch which is to eliminate timezones across the planet so we’re all on the exact same time and force everyone to change their conception of what a day is

You look up something specific about trim carpentry but then get these pure gold aphorisms

Thought exercise I’ve batted around sometimes: Would a government that does luxury social democracy benefits for everyone 0-22 and 65+ be better or worse than the American status quo? (Assume some exceptions like benefits for people with disabilities.)

low info voters are constantly being convinced that Republicans have more moderate policies (and Democrats more left wing policies) than they actually do and the mainstream media is a huge accomplice in this effort.

Ms. Rachel: And sometimes our emotions feel really strong. They're can get so strong... Bruce Springsteen: Well they can so strong, you gotta sing about 'em. Ms. Rachel: That's right Mr. Bruce! Springsteen: One two three HGHUUUUUUUNNNN

Oh no, France has the Trump curse on them now www.politico.com/live-updates...

Drove through some Sussex County DE backroads today and will never get tired of watching seagulls fly over cornfields.

This is the kind of insight that could turn you into a more humble public servant or a nihilist, and I think we know which option Graham chose.

Important update: the toddler and I rooting for Spain while his stuffie wolf, who has an increasingly complex inner life, is rooting for France.

The two young guys at the lumber yard today were named Logan and Xavier. I held my tongue!

Shoutout to Beka Economopoulos and her team for these awesome signs. The March for Science stock photos always remind me of the excellent work they did grounding science in public service.

Anybody have a copy of this? IIRC it's the funniest political science paper I've ever read and has dozens of ways of describing kicking the bucket while in the House or Senate. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

✍️ Megan Rapinoe, writing for Marie Claire “No girl deserves to be discriminated against. That’s why all girls, including trans girls, should be able to play with their classmates in the sports they love… girls who don’t fit someone else’s expectation of femininity, will face further harassment.”

Always odd when someone reasonable goes off on you online but I just tell myself it’s not about me and move on.

There should really be a way to erase “system data” on an iPhone without doing a factory reset and restore from backup.

Does anyone track this publicly for federal races? I’m sure the research exists privately. Maybe a media outlet did it retrospectively?

Despite my own preferences I actually disagree. Most incumbents have fended off primary challenges and pushed progressive groups to contesting open primaries. And we also have to account for counter mobilization against e.g. Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman.

Heidecker is just on another plane as a concept artist and performer. These bits are so long and he completely inhabits what I hesitate to call an "impression." It's more of a strange, displaced embodiment.

The subtext here is an aging, powerful man who is incessantly thinking about his own mortality. See also: knowyourmeme.com/memes/going-...

"People online compared his sister to Rosa Parks but Joseph shook his head. Rosa Parks had agency. She chose to make a stand. His sister was just riding the Orange Line." www.notus.org/metro/viral-...

Remembering some guys by getting a response to a Trump 1 era FOIA request

Two of my relatives were crushing Voodoo Rangers and I got to show them the old Yoda tweet. It’s still a crowd pleaser.

But doctor I am a median voter

South Carolina electoral math is pretty brutal. I recall a Dem operative there saying it sometimes looks like you’re only a few points away but that’s your peak because you’ve run out of reachable Dem voters. Obviously doesn’t mean it’s not worth fighting, it’s just an edge case.

Genuine question: is Katz a DSA member and can members be kicked out? This is downstream of a broader problem which is that there’s (rightfully) no way to stop someone from doing political work except for voluntarily disassociating with them.

Good @davidfaris.bsky.social on the difficulties of structuring coherent presidential debates. IMO, a mass membership base could vote on stuff like this, including who gets invites, format and topics. Agreed that corporate media outlets are ill-suited to helping party voters make informed decisions

*turning to my s/o* Change of plans, I have to post all day

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) jokingly shrugged off advice that he seek immediate medical attention in the moments before his death Saturday night, according to a new Axios report.

i highlight that cnn is not backing jennings "As a CNN Political Commentator, Scott Jennings is not a full-time employee or journalist for the network...His account of a personal conversation with Senator McConnell reflects his experience and is not CNN reporting."

i know you’re looking for it. here she is, girls. here she is, world

yeah definitely keep responding to this guy's arguments instead of pointing out that he has no idea what he's talking about

the Senate is a failed institution and even the "good" senators only begrudgingly believe in democratic and constitutional reforms which would necessarily dilute the power of their goofy-ass, slaver-inspired, 18th-century sinecures

Joe Wilson has the chance to do something incredibly funny

The type of person who would call Lindsey Graham a fascist enabler to his face and ask him to step outside is, to put it mildly, selected against at the level of U.S. senator.

"It's a big club and you ain't in it." -- George Denis Patrick Carlin (1937 - 2008)

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

he actually did the meme

I’ve been laughing about this for twenty minutes.

Ron is that you? Henry? Dick you're here, too? Guys, why is it so hot?

You do not have to Hand It to Mitt Romney, but faced with some of the lowest possible bars for holding a constitutional office, he did indeed step over some of them.

A small but important part of Lindsey Graham's legacy we shouldn't lose sight of today: In 2010, he walked away from cap-and-trade climate legislation, essentially killing bipartisan action on the issue after prolonged, ultimately bad faith negotiations.

If you're Andy Beshear can you just like go to the hospital where McConnell is at to check in on the dude? Feel like this is the sort of thing you maybe couldn't get away with in 1890 or whatever.